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POETRY
90 Pages, 8 x 10
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $20.00 (CA $27.00) (US $20.00)
Publication Date: March 2000
ISBN 9780937804889
Rights: WOR
Roof Books (Mar 2000)
Chet Wiener's introductory remarks situate Tarkos both among the new crop of French poets as it also allows us to appreciate the highly stylized and meticulous work of the poet in question. His work is pre-eminently French, and he has so proven it in 25 volumes of poetry! His poetry is fast and furious, elegant, entertaining, permanently re-viewing his own poetics and thus it is an engaging and necessary work where Tarkos takes us where poetry is supposed to go via repetition, space rhythm, sounds, and all contained within a performative "time" which ranges from a "posie proletaire to post-Mallarmean practitioners such as Prigent an Novarina." –Serge Gavornsky
Christophe Tarkos was born in Marseille in 1963 and died in 2004. Of himself he says: "I don’t exist. I fabricate poems"; "I am slow, extremely slow"; "I am in and out of psychiatric institutions." Tarkos published many books and recordings with small publishers. Éditions P.O.L. published his Écrits Poètiques in 2008.